At Microsoft, we believe in strong partnerships to create opportunity
across the ecosystem. Today, we’re pleased to join other industry leaders to
create the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), which is committed to furthering
industry standards for the #Internet_of_Things.
Along with founding members
Cisco, Electrolux, General Electric, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung and others, we
are proud to be part of the world’s largest open IoT standard group. Together,
our goal is to accelerate industry innovation for all of our customers,
ultimately benefiting billions of people around the world.
We have helped
lead the formation of the OCF because we believe deeply in its vision and the
potential an open standard can deliver. Despite the opportunity and promise of
IoT to connect devices in the home or in businesses, competition between
various open standards and closed company protocols have slowed adoption and
innovation. Much like W3C manages the standards for the World Wide Web, the
IEEE sets electrical engineering standards and the UPU sets the global postal
code – standardization can help consolidate industry attention and create opportunity,
via an agreed upon set of protocols that move industries and the world forward.
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